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Concrete Motion (2026)

From Derek Jarman’s falling figures and ballet costume designs to community skateboard footage and handmade stickers, Concrete Motion reveals how the figure in motion becomes a force in redirecting and reshaping the gallery space.

Rooted in the London Borough of Camden, the exhibition originates from the open space behind Swiss Cottage Library, where local skaters once carved movement into the concrete before the recent remodelling. To recentre skateboarding within the location, an open call was hosted for skaters to submit their footage and commissioned artists Rough Method and Dan Magee assembled a short film following every skateboarder’s journey from learning through mistakes to the elation of making progress.


Participation continues into the exhibition space where the materiality of the skateboarding world is represented by concrete tones, graffiti art and life-size silhouettes. Visitors are invited to place stickers, produced in a community-led workshop, in and around the gallery. Wheel marks track the gallery floor, which scuff and fade as visitors move around, marking their presence. Together, they enact a space in perpetual motion.
Derek Jarman’s works from the Camden Art Collection have been selected for the exhibition. They capture the movement of ballet through costume design, mirroring the motion of skateboarding and the radical reforming of conventions. Jarman’s use of art as activism to subvert power structures invites consideration of how the figure in motion reflects a process of change and how our own movements can continue to be disruptive.


Concrete Motion becomes a space, within the heart of Camden, where the skating community can continue to make their mark.
Contributing Artists:
Rough Method
Dan Magee
Derek Jarman
Ed Cowburn
Aleksandra Grczyk
Dave Hort
Ina Kim
Kore I.R.P.A.T.G.
Branislav Rodman


Curated by:
Diana Berezhnenko
Dana Chang
FiFi Chang 
Tagen Donovan
Connie Evans 
Tamara Greatrex 
Ina Kim
Tara Keys
Hoho Lai
Kamila Modh Rozely
Elizabeth Price
Clementia Tinova
Daisy Wang
Giulia Zampori 
Zejun Zhu

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